National campaign organisation Animal Aid, which has fought plans to cull the UK’s ruddy duck population for the past ten years, is delighted by Wigan Council’s announcement that it is suspending a local cull and...
Posted 23 Mar 2007
The BBC has formally apologised to Animal Aid more than a year after Radio 4’s Today programme was pressured by the Jockey Club (JC) into dropping a spokesman for the campaign group who had been...
Posted 22 Mar 2007
Racing is facing a crisis with seven horses known to have died on racecourses in just one week. The latest four victims all perished on Monday at Wincanton, Somerset.
Posted 20 Mar 2007
This article, by our Director Andrew Tyler, is republished from The Independent
Posted 29 Nov 2006
The notorious Cheltenham racecourse claimed three more equine victims this weekend, with the deaths of Ol' Man River, Buailtes And Fadas, and War General.
Posted 13 Nov 2006
The chase after vast financial rewards by the global horse racing industry's dominant forces has led to over-production of a swift but physically weak Thoroughbred, according to a major new report, 'Bred To Death', published...
Posted 29 Sep 2006
This month, the Imperial War Museum in London launches The Animals' War - an exhibition commemorating the animals who have died in worldwide conflicts. To coincide with this, Animal Aid has produced a brand new...
Posted 01 Jul 2006
Animal Aid has issued a bold criticism of aid agencies that provide animals to impoverished people in Africa. The exchange below is between Animal Aid Director Andrew Tyler and Send A Cow Chief Executive Martin...
Posted 21 Jun 2006
Animal Aid's Director, Andrew Tyler, and its Horseracing Consultant, Dene Stansall, took the issue of the scandalously high levels of equine death and injury to the House of Commons last night when it debated the...
Posted 14 Jun 2006
The horse racing industry is in turmoil after the death of a top horse in Saturday's Epsom Derby, the world's premier flat race.
Posted 05 Jun 2006